The
Oneonta Outlaws won their second NYCBL crown in three years,
sandwiching championships around a one-year stay in the Perfect
Game Collegiate Baseball League. Ownership of the original Oneonta franchise re-located
the team to Saratoga, N.Y., after just one year in the PGCBL, and the
Outlaws were quickly welcomed back into the NYCBL under new
ownership.

Not
only did Oneonta post the best regular-season record in the 11-team
NYCBL and subdue Hornell in two straight playoff games to secure
another title, but it boasted the league’s strongest pitching
staff, with three arms on the accompanying list of the league’s top
prospects and several others in consideration.

There
were three candidates who received primary consideration as the top
prospect in the league. Two were Geneva Redwings righthanders Robert
Winemiller (Case Western Reserve, Ohio), who worked in just eight
innings but showcased electric stuff, and Tommy Bergjans (Haverford,
Pa.), who featured advanced pitchability but lacked Winemiller’s
ceiling. Wellsville first baseman Scott DeJong (Felician, N.J.)
showed tremendous power in swatting a league-record 14 home runs.

TOP
10 PROSPECTS1.
ROBERT WINEMILLER, rhp/c, Geneva Redwings (Case Western Reserve,
Ohio/JR in 2014)An
obscure talent from Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University,
Winemiller logged just eight innings on the mound for the Redwings
this summer, but made almost every one of them count. After
surrendering three runs in his first outing on June 15, he was
unscored upon in his remaining nine appearances. With the exception
of four brief relief appearances as a freshman at Case Western, an
NCAA Division III school, Winemiller was almost exclusively a catcher
in his first two seasons there, and was signed by Geneva to
essentially handle that role, though ended up getting just 24
at-bats. This summer marked the first time he committed himself to
pitching, and the results were rather impressive. Not only did
Winemiller post a 1.12 ERA with three saves in his 10 appearances,
but out of the righthander’s loose, live arm came a steady 94-mph
fastball and developing slider. He also showed the aptitude to locate
his stuff, prompting scouts in attendance at the NYCBL All-Star Game
to encourage him to leave catching behind and move to the mound
full-time. That may not take much convincing as Winemiller has hit a
combined .253 with no homers in nearly 200 at-bats in his time behind
the plate at Case Western, but it may take time getting him
acclimated to becoming a full-time pitcher. If it all comes together
next spring, he could be a serious helium candidate for the 2014
draft.

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